Arcturion

Arcturion t1_ja6vg51 wrote

Reply to Belarus to Mobilize 1.5 Million Potential Soldiers Outside the Armed Forces in Case of War, Senior Belarusian Official Claims by Leshracc

>Lukashenko this month ordered the formation of a new volunteer territorial defence force of up to 150,000 people. He has said his army would fight only if Belarus was attacked.

I'd start running if I was a Belarussian conscript. Where have we heard similar promises before?

Conscripts are cannon fodder. They won't draft conscripts unless they plan to use them.

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Arcturion t1_j5xsohv wrote

Reply to TIL of Camila O'Gorman & priest Ladislao Gutiérrez, who started a clandestine relationship and in 1847 escaped Buenos Aires, only to be found months later and executed while O'Gorman was pregnant. The execution appalled both friends and enemies of Juan Manuel de Rosas, who ordered the execution. by Crua-Chan_Lad

As expected, once you dig deeper, its not just one asshole at work but a poisonous community trying to enforce their idea of morals.

>Other Irish Argentines, including Father Anthony Fahy and lawyer Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield "demanded an exemplary punishment of the wayward daughter that was also giving the industrious and well-regarded [Irish] community a bad name".

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Arcturion t1_iy2s1nb wrote

Reply to TIL More than 80 percent of the ocean has never been mapped, explored, or even seen by humans and as a result, we know more about the surface of Mars than Earth by [deleted]

This is a good thing. What is not mapped, cannot be exploited.

It is not a coincidence that Japan is the leading country in mapping out its share of the ocean, and has mapped out 97.7% of its EEZ. Their govt has even told us why: -

>The Japanese government launched a project known as the Development of Innovative Technologies for Exploration of Deep Sea Resources, under its Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program, to come up with high-efficiency, low-cost deep-ocean resource surveying and extraction systems. New deep-water acoustic mapping technologies, exploratory autonomous vehicles and mud pumping machinery are in early testing.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-020-00528-8

Once more of the ocean has been mapped out, underwater mining and fracking will not be far behind, as well as the prospect of international conflict over undersea resources.

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